If a young player chooses his team you are darn sure you are going to get effort from an owners point of view and avoid the Lindos I am not going to play fiasco's ..

The RJ Unberger is a perfect example .. Drafted by Vancouver .. Contract problem and traded, NYR not interested in signing him ..Sat out the year ..Umberger being a PA born player decided between Pitts and Philly and is now very happy to be with that organization and it took UFA to accomplish that ..

Teams would have no reason to tank seasons to get draft picks

Teams that need the young player the most would plan the best, and the young teams would have their pick of the UFA vets to build their teams that have strong cores already .. It allows teams to sign by need and not BPA ..

Say for next draft year ... Crosby may want to play in Montreal as his first choice, or maybe pick NJ because his friend Zach Parise is there etc. or he likes LA .. Gilbert Brule may pick Vancouver .. but that is not always true .and it has to be a 2-way streets and his team of choice has to have a need and Cap room . but it certainly would increase Fan support in cities and increase revenue and the Euro's anybody guess .. The future players like Phil Kessel could pick his city to promote the game in the USA etc Kessel in Columbus would go a long way to promote Fan support in the USA verses Kessel getting drafted and playing in Montreal or Edmonton lets say.

It would promote teambuilding throughtout the NHL ,

Almost like making it like NCAA recruiting in the States ..You hear the prospect development cliché often enough .. now these amateur scouts could really prove their worth by securing the best talent for their teams.

and with a complete balance for the NHL and NHLPA in a new CBA .. why would this not in theory work??

I really don't think it would work. If infact a player did get to choose his own destiny (team) than you would see alot of teams that would be bare. I mean, c'mon, realistically how many players out there are going to want to play for lets say, a Columbus, or Carolina? Sure there will be the odd player. But how many American players are out there? There is 24 American teams in the NHL, 6 in Canada, and the majority (what is it , 65%?) of players come from Canada. I'd assume a Canadian (for the most part) would choose a Canadian based team to call his home. (and I am aware of the European content, who knows where they would choose to go)

And lets just say a team is at it's max salary (payroll), does that mean they don't get to draft?

Anywho, it was a nice thought, I just don't see how it could be plausible. I just think there has to be more boundries (unfortunately).